We did subsidize health care previously thru the emergency room and our health care premiums did reflect that except that, IMHO, the subsidization part of the bill wasn't made apparent for most people.
You are confusing two different things here. The emergency room wasn't the healthy subsidizing the unhealthy; it was the insured subsidizing the uninsured.
The subsidy of the healthy v. the unhealthy is in the insurance premiums themselves. As is the subsidy for the uninsured.
Now it, the subsidization cost, is becoming apparent in the higher premiums the "losers" under the AFCA have to pay in comparison to what they were paying.
Well, that is so. It also shows how mindless the people who are "outraged" that they have to pay more for their own insurance due to the unhealthy. They simply didn't think about it before. Just as they don't think about the fundamental fact that their premiums are as high as they are because the entire medical sector is so screwed up.
I note that you did not reply at all to that part of my post. That is something that people should be totally outraged about. We got outraged for a few minutes about the random and arbitrary nature of hospital charges, when Steven Brill's article about it came out last year, and then, predictably, nothing. Nothing at all. Dead silence. Instead, outrage, I am outraged, I tell you, about how Obamacare is messing with the finest medical system in the world, the envy of nations!
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